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No. 262,066. Patented Aug. l, 1882.

vvvvvvvvv HOBART LINTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD F.LINTON, OF EAST NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent vNo. 262,066, dated August1, 1882. Application filed July 1, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, HOBART LINTON, of Boston,in the county of Suffolk andState of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Game, which Iterm Entourer, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a novel and interesting gameinvolving both skill and chance in its playing.

To this Vend the invention consists in the combination of a board orplatform provided with a number of spaces arranged in a hexagonal group,and adapted to receivepieces or checks, and a rotary device forindicating how many pieces or checks the players are entitled to placeon the board or platform, as hereinafter fully described.

The -invention further consists in a novel `method of playing with thepieces or checks form ofa hexagon; but their shape may be different, ifdesirable. I prefer to make them circular because then they are moreeasily defined, or, in other words, more distinct from each other.

B designates pieces or checks, which, in playing the game, are placed onthe spaces a of the board. These pieces or checks should be made ofdifferent colors for different players. They are shown as made ofdisksofcard-board or other suitable material.

O designates the rotary device for indicating the number of pieces orchecks B which each party to the game is entitled to place 0n the boardat one play. As here shown, it consists of a wheel supported in avertical plane by a standard, D, and provided with radial hand-piecesC', whereby it may be rotated.

Its face is divided into five portions,"one of which is a blank, and theothers of which reranged in front of its face is an index, E. To effectthe rotation of this device one of the hand-pieces is tapped or struckwith the hand, and the portion of its face which comes opposite theindex when the device stops will indicate how many pieces or checks theparty whose turn it is to play may place on the board. For instance, ifthe blank portion stops opposite the index he will not be entitled toplace any pieces or checks on the board. If the portion marked l stopsopposite the index, he will be entitled to place one piece or check onthe board, and if the portion marked with any other number stopsopposite the inof pieces or checks on the board.

The game is best adapted to be played by from three to ten persons, andthey may play separately or by forming partnerships. When partnershipsare formed the partners should not sit together, but alternately aroundthe `board A. Each player should have thirty-six pieces or checks, B, ofa different color from those of the other players. This is desirableeven when players form partnerships, so that the pieces or checks ofonel partner may be distinguished from those of his fellow partner. Thegame is terminated as soon as one player succeeds in having all hispieces or checks on the board. The contest in playing the game consistsin the endeavors of the players to so place their pieces or checks onthe board as to surround those of some other player. Whenever one playersucceeds in placing his pieces or checks on the board so as to makethem,irrespective of the pieces or checks of any other players, surroundthe pieces or checks of any particular player, he becomes entitled toremove all of the pieces or checks so surrounded and to replace themwith his own pieces or checks at once. This surroundwhat I term anentourer.7 It is illustrated near the right side of the board A. Whenthe pieces or checks of any player are surrounded by the pieces orchecks of several other players conjointly an entourer is alsospectively bear the numbers 1,2, 3, and 4. Ar

dex he will be entitled to place that number v ing of a players piecesor checks constitutes 9 IOO checks are removed from the board.

formed. 'Such an entourer is shown near the left side of the board A.The surrounded checks or pieces thereupon become the property of theplayers Whose pieces or checks surround them. rI he game is thensuspended until the surrounded or captured pieces or In this case thesurrounded or captured pieces or checks must, however, be removed one ata time and in succession by the players Whose pieces or checks surroundthem, the player who consummated the surrounding or capturing of thesaid pieces or checks proceeding rst. .Of course it is wise in eachplayer to so take oft' the surrounded pieces or checks as to conduce tobis making an entourer alone7 and thereby entitling himself to take oftla number of remaining checks at one play. The

players taking off the surrounded or captured pieces or checks replacethem by pieces or checks of their own. An entourer vis also consummatedWhen the pieces or checks ot' a player are surrounded or hemmed inagainst the outer part of the board A beyond the spaces a, and in thiscase tbe pieces or checks so heinmed in are taken off and replacedeither at once or successively, according to whether they are hemmed inby the pieces or checks of a single player or by those of severalplayers. Each player of course rotates the Wheel C before playing, toascertain how many pieces or checks he is entitled to play. No player isentitled to operate the wheel until the previous player has placed onthe board all the pieces or checks he is entitledto place there in hisprevious turn. A player may at any time trade some pieces or checkswhich he has captured for others of his own which have been captured.After losing any pieces or checks a player is unable to Win the gameunless he can get them back again by so trading. Hence he can afford tooffer large odds in many 'cases intrading. Partners' may help each otherin trading, and may'even give each other their pieces or checks Whichhave been captured. If it becomes impossible fora partner to recover hislost pieces or checks, he should use all his efforts to aid his partner.

It is obvious from the foregoing description of the game that it willgenerally be the wisest plan for a player to keep his pieces or checksconnected, but to avoid getting them in clusters, for the further theyextend in a given line the harder it will be for another player or otherplayers to surround them.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,isl 1. The combination of' a board or platform provided with a number ofspaces arranged in a hexagonal group, and adapted to receive pieces orchecks, and a rotary device for indicating how many pieces or checks theplayers are entitled to place on the board or platform, substantially asspecified.

2. The game consisting in placing upon a board provided with a series ofspaces a number of distinguishable pieces or checks possessed bydifferent players, and accordingto the following method: rst, operatinga device to ascertain how many pieces or checks va player may place onthe board; second, so disposing of the pieces or checks as to surroundor conduce toward surrounding the pieces or checks of another player;and, third, taking the pieces or checks, when surrounded, from the boardand replacing them with the pieces or checks of the player or playerswho effect the surrounding of them, all substantially as hereindescribed.

HOBART LINTON.

v Witnesses:

CYRUs C. MAYBERRY, WM. H. WALLACE." Y

